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Hellweg westfalicus

trading on ancient routes

On the Westphalian Hellweg, a trade route from Duisburg to Paderborn, of more than 5000 years, you buy beer, salt and iron goods cheaply and try to sell them for as much as you can; with carriages you build trade routes to cities further away.

In 12 rounds you play four phases. 1) Display a new trading card. 2) Sale of merchandise  –you check the demand in the four cities on the card and decide if you want to sell and can sell. 3) Actions: This phase offers several options for two action rounds in which you place a merchant on the open trading card or on the market case and then can do one of those options: Buy merchandise tokens and carriages, place merchandise token or carriage on the board, purchase a merchandise card or take money. Conditions for implementing an actions must be complied with. 4) Change of starting player.

When the last trading card is revealed, you play until the end of the phase Sale of Merchandise and then you score the merchandise cards that you own for money and win with the highest total of money.

When you play with „Warehouse and Privileges“, you use the blue sides of the cards and two additional carriages and implement rule changes for Stocking up and buying merchandise cards. If you buy a card of value 20, 25 or 30 you also choose a privilege card and reveal all privilege cards in the action „take money“. The module “Passenger Transportation” earns you money when using roads with a village symbol.

A typical Schacht, elegant, with a dense topic and interesting mechanisms, and – due to different levels provided by the modules – also suitable for families with some gaming experience.

Players: 2-4

Age: 10+

Time: 60+

Designer: Michael Schacht

Artist: Michael Schacht

Price: ca. 25 Euro

Publisher: Spiele aus Timbuktu 2014

Web: www.spiele-aus-timbuktu.de

Genre: Trade, worker placement

Users: With friends

Version: multi

Rules: de en

In-game text: no

Comments:

Historic topic

Modules allow play in various levels of difficulty

Good for families with some gaming experience

Family version recommended for a first play

Compares to:

Trade and worker placement games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

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Interaction (brown): 2

Dexterity (green): 0

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